They don't boot or tow for ATVES tickets. Your experience here is wrong if you are claiming that, and I'd like to see your boot or tow evidence.

License and plate renewals going through despite owed tickets is new as of the pandemic. If your experience predates that, fair. Otherwise again, it's state policy and you're wrong.

Edit: This fuckin sub, I'm being downvoted for factual statements replying to a deleted comment

Whatever dude keep licking that boot

lol good luck with that

They didn’t even look at the Latino Stores like Mega Mart and LA Mart. You can buy a lot stuff for much cheaper than these other places. It also falls like HMart that if you buy certain items that caters to their customers you can have even more savings. But the international markets tend to have lots of Meat options and at a cheaper price.

Someone fell in an died a few years ago. Their parents were pushing for it but didn’t get anywhere idr why.

I use this as a baseline and modify based on sun, length of run, wind, etc.

https://www.runnersworld.com/training/a20803133/what-to-wear/

>but first it needs to be made very clear that riding on the sidewalk endangers pedestrians and is strictly not allowed.

I use the scooters occasionally when my bike is in the shop and I’m 99% certain it literally says to not ride them on the sidewalks on the scooter itself, so there really is no excuse.

Yeah, you're probably right.

Could just be bad timing. Been too cold or too wet for a while. Might be stuck until late spring at this point.

Yeah, they seem to have been done for a couple months now.

> If the sidewalk is the only safe option, they need to get off and walk with the scooter

As somebody who rides the scooters a lot - including through areas where it's just straight up not safe to ride on the road - I think it's fine to have a middle ground on here. If there's nobody on the sidewalk, it's fine to ride the scooter. But if you come up on a pedestrian, you give them plenty of space or get off if you can't.

I know there are people that do not ride the scooters with that much respect to pedestrians and I absolutely think it's unacceptable, but I also don't think it's fair to blanket ban riding on sidewalks at all either.

TL;DR just don't be a dickhead when you ride a scooter?

Oh they certainly do I know from experience.

Not a clothing recommendation, but put some lotion on. The combination of the cold air, sweat, and dry skin can make you itch like crazy in winter if you are eczema prone or have exercise induced itching.

>The problem with bikes and scooters is they try to enjoy the privileges of pedestrians while ignoring the fact that they have to obey traffic laws too.

that is exactly the point. bikes and scooters ARE like being a pedestrian and should be able to go both ways on any street. imagine if every sidewalk along a 1-way street could only be walked in one direction.

what you're saying is equivalent to: "I hate that people walk north on the sidewalk next to St. Paul street. why can't they just go over to Calvert sidewalks to walk north". it's ridiculous to force people walking to have to walk in the direction of cars. one-way streets only exist because of the shitty space efficiency and danger of cars.

just like pedestrians shouldn't have to walk only in one direction along the sidewalk, bikes/scooters should have a lane to go in both direction on each street.

our culture is so "Stockholm-syndromed" from cars that people just assume the car infrastructure is true, right, just, and handed down by god, and everything else must conform to them, and giving up single-digit percent of road space so that people don't have to do crazy circuitous routes to follow the dumbass car layout is unthinkable.

bikes and scooters don't need 1-way streets, just like pedestrians don't need 1-way sidewalks. one-way streets are a dumbass requirement because cars are a dumbass way to get around a city. the infrastructure should be updated so that people can use any other mode aside from a polluting, dangerous, lazy-boy on wheels. nobody is even asking to get rid of cars... just single-digit of space. that's it. but it's unthinkable...

Not sure if this is what's happening but when they did my street (3ish years ago) they initially patched holes which were left for weeks and then came back and paved when they were done with a majority of the neighborhood.

I assume it's a lot more money and work to replace street by street then it is to wait and do multiple streets at once.

Step one: Don’t be racist?

what percentage of the Baltimore city DOT budget goes to bike lanes?

cool, thanks for updating me.

More infrastructure would be nice, but first it needs to be made very clear that riding on the sidewalk endangers pedestrians and is strictly not allowed.

If the sidewalk is the only safe option, they need to get off and walk with the scooter. It is not their right to endanger pedestrians for their convenience.

bmoreDOT replied to me with a link to a video on their new initiative which seems to address this.

It's significantly less dystopian and verifies that the person driving is the one getting in trouble. With a camera all you can do is send a ticket to an address. If it's the wrong address, oh well, if someone was borrowing your car too bad, if the plates aren't registered uh oh.

I'm not one for a police state but enforcing traffic laws is a pretty low bar to ask of police

Start with your town and let us know how it goes

Who do we talk to about getting railings on the inner harbor promenade? I’ve seen so many scooter drivers almost end up in the harbor

Agreed, they shouldn't be on the sidewalk. We as a city need to invest more in bike/scooter infrastructure so we can avoid this conflict point. In some places, riding on the sidewalk is the only safe option for the scooter operator.

Yes, I bet you are correct that some are not even legally on the road. But the law of averages says there are many who are both bold and dumb. Either way the photo camera will find that there is a stolen car on the road or the tags are stolen.

If you don't pay the fine and want to get tag, registration or your license renewed you have to pay off the fines and penalties.

I suggest start it based around a book on the subject, such as Pietila’s “Not in My Neighborhood,” I would be interested in that. That way people come into it presumably a little educated and it doesn’t turn into some stereotyping gripefest about black squeegee kids and white county drug tourists.